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Perspectives on Percival Everett / edited by Keith B. Mitchell and Robin G. Vander.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Everett, Percival--Criticism and interpretation.
- Everett, Percival.
- Authors, American--20th century--Interviews.
- Authors, American.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Interviews.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Percival Everett writes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, and is one of the most prolific, acclaimed, yet under-examined African-American writers working today. Everett's works fall well within, as well as outside, of what most critics would deem the African-American literary tradition. This volume examines issues of identity, authenticity, and semiotics, in addition to post-modernism and African-American and American literary traditions - issues essential to understanding his aesthetic and political concerns.
- Contents:
- Introduction: changing the frame, framing the change: the art of Percival Everett / Keith B. Mitchell and Robin G. Vander
- "Knowledge2 + certainty2 = squat2": (re)thinking identity and meaning in Percival Everett's The water cure / Jonathan Dittman
- "This strange juggler's game": forclusion in Percival Everett's I am not Sidney Poitier / Sarah Mantilla Griffin
- Frenzy: framing text to set discourse in a cultural continuum / Ronald Dorris
- The preservationist impulse in Percival Everett's "True romance" / Frederic Dumas
- The mind-body split in American desert: synthesizing Everett's critique of race, religion, and science / Richard Schur
- A bird of a different feather: blues, jazz, and the difficult journey to the self in Percival Everett's Suder / Uzzie Cannon
- "Do you mind if we make Craig Suder white?": from stereotype to cosmopolitan to grotesque in Percival Everett's Suder / Anthony Stewart
- Charting the body: Percival Everett's corporeal landscapes in re: f (gesture) / Sarah Wyman
- When the text becomes the stage: Percival Everett's performance turn in For Her dark skin / Robin G. Vander.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61703-683-8
- 1-62103-918-8
- OCLC:
- 794973802
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